I'm having issues with IPv6 connections. Only with those. They timeout roughly every 10 minutes (due to address renewal i suppose).
Happens with every debian based flavour of linux i tried in a year ...

Unfortunately, when a hard drive (usually a virtual drive) is slow, Linux aborts requests to that drive after a timeout, possibly causing data corruption.
Last time this happened to me, I had 2 vms ...

I recently cloned a centos 6.5 virtual machine from one location to another. In the process, the IP and netmask of the system changed. For awhile after the clone everything seemed to work fine, and ...

So just recently when installing php-fpm, I had installed a few MySQL packages with it (I believe). I already had mysql installed. However now when any of my programs attempt to access the database, ...

I am trying out the timeout command and would like to know if there is a kill signal that a GUI program, whether a graphics desktop or a terminal program will treat as the user terminating the program ...

Is it possible, to find out when was the last time there was any traffic on an opened TCP socket?
Keepalive and timeout timers are based on this statistic, so I guess it has to be stored somewhere.
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I am trying to use fbi in a bash script to display a series of .jpg images. But once fbi begins its process, it continues to cycle through the images and I only want to display each image once for a ...

Is there a way to have systemd stop a service after it has been running for X amount of seconds?
I looked at just wrapping ExecStart with timeout, however I believe it might not work if my service is ...

Every time I want to open a GUI program that needs root permissions, I have to put my password. For example, I open synaptic and put my password then close it and a second later decide to reopen it it ...

For network catastrophe simulations of our server environment, we are looking for a way to intentionally timeout a TCP socket. Are there any simple ways for existing sockets? Also, little C test-case ...

I use sudo in many systems, but I have one of them that makes me type my password each time I run sudo. All the others remember it for a while. This is debian 7.4 wheezy and sudo 1.8.5
I found this :
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I'm running a CentOS release 5.5 (Final) server running the LAMP stack amongst other things.
When working on a web project with numerous active connections to the server box (Plesk over HTTP, SSH and ...

I have a fresh, text-only installation of openSuSe 13.1 (physical server, old Samsung netbook), and I'm trying to get OTRS up and running. I've installed OTRS using the below commands. I don't think ...

I have a one off web request that I need to send via a Wordpress page hosted on my server.
The request takes a long time because it's processing a lot of data; unfortunately, the page returns with an ...

I have been using a Linux server via SSH for months, it still works from other locations but for some reason, this week, it isn't working from the office.
Putty says "Connection timed out"
Is there ...

I'm experimenting with OpenVPN connections routed through Tor, using
pairs of Tor gateway and OpenVPN-hosting VMs. On the server side, link
local ports are forwarded to Tor hidden-service ports on the ...

I can not get TFTP to work properly on my system. I have set /etc/default/tftpd-hpa to /srv/tftp/ which I have set to permissions 777 like all the contents as well (and /srv/ too) however, whenever I ...

I have a main script that I'm running, and from it I have a second "slow process" I want to kick off, and "do something" in the main script if it doesn't complete in the time limit -- depending on if ...

I am a little out of my depth here so bear with me. I am trying to configure mpirun and mpiexec to run software called Materials Studio on a 1 node, 2 processor, 12 core cluster. The submission scheme ...

I am having trouble getting named to start using systemd on the Fedora 18 Raspberry Pi spin. It starts, then a few moments later there is a timeout and it fails. If I run the commands in named.service ...

What is the -w (deadline) flag in ping for? I cannot find a description of it in the ping man page; only for -W, which takes seconds as a parameter. What is the difference between them, and how can I ...